Yale AAUP
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Become a member! https://aaupyale.org/join-us/
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The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
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"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
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Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
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"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes"
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
Yale hints at layoffs to help pay for endowment tax hike under Trump administration
The university estimates it will pay the federal government $300 million per year beginning in July 2026.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes"
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
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This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
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“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions”
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
Professors lament federal research funding cuts at faculty panel
The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors held a virtual panel Thursday featuring six faculty members who have been affected by President Donald Trump’s cuts.
yaledailynews.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions”
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
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“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11/21/as-yale-and-harvard-meet-treatment-by-trump-sets-them-apart/“It’s
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
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The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin!
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin!
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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Great piece on the @crimsoncourage.bsky.social and #Standup4Yale tailgate yesterday.
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great piece on the @crimsoncourage.bsky.social and #Standup4Yale tailgate yesterday.
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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Great piece on yesterday’s tailgate with Stand Up for Yale! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Please sign and share our joint letter: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#HYjointhefight #harvard #yale #academicfreedom #thegame
Please sign and share our joint letter: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#HYjointhefight #harvard #yale #academicfreedom #thegame
Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Great piece on yesterday’s tailgate with Stand Up for Yale! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Please sign and share our joint letter: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#HYjointhefight #harvard #yale #academicfreedom #thegame
Please sign and share our joint letter: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#HYjointhefight #harvard #yale #academicfreedom #thegame
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Thanks to @senatorblumenthal.bsky.social for handing out stickers and telling us that it was “the most fun he’s had all year!” ❤️💙
Sign our joint Harvard/Yale alumni letter in support of academic freedom: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#hyjointhefight #TheGame #Yale #Harvard
Sign our joint Harvard/Yale alumni letter in support of academic freedom: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#hyjointhefight #TheGame #Yale #Harvard
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thanks to @senatorblumenthal.bsky.social for handing out stickers and telling us that it was “the most fun he’s had all year!” ❤️💙
Sign our joint Harvard/Yale alumni letter in support of academic freedom: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#hyjointhefight #TheGame #Yale #Harvard
Sign our joint Harvard/Yale alumni letter in support of academic freedom: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard...
#hyjointhefight #TheGame #Yale #Harvard
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#Harvard and #Yale alums, faculty, staff and students came out today in support of higher education in America now under vicious assault from the #Trump administration (thanks to @blumenthal.senate.gov and @gtconway.bsky.social for coming out to help us today at the #Harvard #Yale game!).
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#Harvard and #Yale alums, faculty, staff and students came out today in support of higher education in America now under vicious assault from the #Trump administration (thanks to @blumenthal.senate.gov and @gtconway.bsky.social for coming out to help us today at the #Harvard #Yale game!).
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Very simple lesson here:
Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular.
Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.
Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular.
Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.
Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Very simple lesson here:
Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular.
Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.
Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular.
Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.
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“Given the findings from federal judges that Trump has flouted the legal safeguards against abrupt and arbitrary grant cancellations in favor of illicit bullying, the question facing universities trying to negotiate their way out is: What is there to negotiate?”
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit?
The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Given the findings from federal judges that Trump has flouted the legal safeguards against abrupt and arbitrary grant cancellations in favor of illicit bullying, the question facing universities trying to negotiate their way out is: What is there to negotiate?”
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
academeblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
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The one thing that will get me to the Harvard Yale tailgate!! Join us tomorrow, and stand up for academic freedom - going to be fun. @yaleaaup.bsky.social
Stop by our tailgate with Stand Up for Yale at The Game on Saturday and sign our joint letter to both university’s leaders calling for a strong and principled defense of academic freedom.
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Yale, Harvard alumni hosting tailgate for academic freedom at The Game
Alumni groups Stand Up for Yale and Crimson Courage will host a joint tailgate to gather signatures for a letter they plan to send to their universities’ presidents about protecting academic freedom.
yaledailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The one thing that will get me to the Harvard Yale tailgate!! Join us tomorrow, and stand up for academic freedom - going to be fun. @yaleaaup.bsky.social
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The Trump admin weaponized Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to attack DEI programs, protections for trans people & freedom of speech at our universities.
We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON.
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuit👇
We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON.
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuit👇
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump admin weaponized Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to attack DEI programs, protections for trans people & freedom of speech at our universities.
We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON.
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuit👇
We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON.
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuit👇
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Our most recent AAUP TV episode breaks down AAUP v. Trump, a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit that resulted in a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump-Vance administration's attempt to stifle free speech & academic freedom across the University of California system.
Full episode here👇
Full episode here👇
What the Victory in AAUP v. Trump means for the UC System and Higher Education
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our most recent AAUP TV episode breaks down AAUP v. Trump, a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit that resulted in a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump-Vance administration's attempt to stifle free speech & academic freedom across the University of California system.
Full episode here👇
Full episode here👇
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Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
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In this new @usnews.com article, five law profs (including me) with vastly different views on most issues explain why colleges should reject Trump's "Compact" with higher ed, for both constitutional and policy reasons: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In this new @usnews.com article, five law profs (including me) with vastly different views on most issues explain why colleges should reject Trump's "Compact" with higher ed, for both constitutional and policy reasons: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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Your dues pay for these legal victories (and much more at the chapter level). Join AAUP today!
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Your dues pay for these legal victories (and much more at the chapter level). Join AAUP today!